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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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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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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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
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
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
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Believe End Inspirational Motivational Oneself Sky Wings

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