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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Existence God Oneself Thinking
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
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Consequence Goal Success
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Enough Interesting Yourself
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
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
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
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
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Happiness Life Philosophy Tree Woman
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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Art Avoid Count Happiness Rest
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
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
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work

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