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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
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
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
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
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
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

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