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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

Gustave Flaubert

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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Ordinary Small Tender
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Life Order Original Regular Violence Work
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Existence God Oneself Thinking
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Happiness Life Philosophy Tree Woman
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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