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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.

Gustave Flaubert

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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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
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
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
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
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
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
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure

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