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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live

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