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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

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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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
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
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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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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
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
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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