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Exuberance is better than taste.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Better Gratitude History Ignorance King Ordinary Ourselves Person Perspective Time
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Eat Life Surface Yourself
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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Challenge Day Feeling Glory Life Moments Promise Rise Success
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
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
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time

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