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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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 is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
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
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
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality

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