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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

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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Current heavy Ideas Strong
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Illusion One Liner Public Work
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
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
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
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
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
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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Better Gratitude History Ignorance King Ordinary Ourselves Person Perspective Time
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
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
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal

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