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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

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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
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
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Life Order Original Regular Violence Work
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
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight 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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Ordinary Small Tender
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe

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