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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Ordinary Small Tender
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
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
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
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Life Order Original Regular Violence Work
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
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
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 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
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Happiness Life Philosophy Tree Woman
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
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
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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
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

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