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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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