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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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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
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
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
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
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
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
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
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.
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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
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 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
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
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
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

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