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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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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
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
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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

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