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

Gustave Flaubert

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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
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
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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Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering

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