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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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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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Conclusion Consist Reach Stupidity
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
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
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential

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