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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
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
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
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
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Blow Chill Love Request
To be simple is no small matter.
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Minimalism One Liner Simplicity

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