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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!

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
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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
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
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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
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
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.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
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!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Better Gratitude History Ignorance King Ordinary Ourselves Person Perspective Time
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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
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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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
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

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