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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
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
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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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
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request
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
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
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
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
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
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
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

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