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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Gustave Flaubert

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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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
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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
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
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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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
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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