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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Life Order Original Regular Violence Work
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
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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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
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
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
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
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’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
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
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
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
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
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
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
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal

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