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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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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself

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