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The future is the worst thing about the present.

Gustave Flaubert

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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
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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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Happiness Life Philosophy Tree Woman
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
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
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
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work

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