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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

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
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Eat Life Surface Yourself
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach

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