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Gustave Flaubert

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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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Happiness Lost Selfish 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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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Conclusion Consist Reach Stupidity
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
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
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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

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