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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Gustave Flaubert

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
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
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
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
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
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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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Ordinary Small Tender
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Challenge Day Feeling Glory Life Moments Promise Rise Success
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
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
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
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

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