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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
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
One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself

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