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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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
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
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Eat Life Surface Yourself
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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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

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