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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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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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
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
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
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 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

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