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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
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
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
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
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
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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Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
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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Art Avoid Count Happiness Rest
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
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
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
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

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