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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
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
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 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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World

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