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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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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
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
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing 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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Better Gratitude History Ignorance King Ordinary Ourselves Person Perspective Time
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
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
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
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
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry

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