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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.

Gustave Flaubert

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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Art Avoid Count Happiness Rest
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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Challenge Day Feeling Glory Life Moments Promise Rise Success
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
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
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
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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 deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk

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