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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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