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The future is the worst thing about the present.

Gustave Flaubert

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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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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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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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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Believe End Inspirational Motivational Oneself Sky Wings
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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