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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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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
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Believe End Inspirational Motivational Oneself Sky Wings
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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 can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
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
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Ordinary Small Tender
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
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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
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
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
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
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Happiness Life Philosophy Tree Woman
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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Art Avoid Count Happiness Rest
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars

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