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The future is the worst thing about the present.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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
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 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
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
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
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
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry

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