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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
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
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
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
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
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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 spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars

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