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Exuberance is better than taste.

Gustave Flaubert

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
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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
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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
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
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Existence God Oneself Thinking
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
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
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
One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society

Exuberance is better than taste.

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