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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Confirm Ideal Reality
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
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
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
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
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
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
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
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Desire Dreams Myself Potential
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Believe End Inspirational Motivational Oneself Sky Wings
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
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
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
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
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World

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