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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
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
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
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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
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

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