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

Gustave Flaubert

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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
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
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
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
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
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
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
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
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
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True

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