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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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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
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
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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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential

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