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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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
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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
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
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 writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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