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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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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
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
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
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
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
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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Better Gratitude History Ignorance King Ordinary Ourselves Person Perspective Time
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
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
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Believe End Inspirational Motivational Oneself Sky Wings
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality

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