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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 must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Ordinary Small Tender
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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
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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Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
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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Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars

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