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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
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
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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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