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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
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
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Read in order to live.
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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’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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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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time

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