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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Humble Principle Soul World
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Hold Important Soul World
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Interest See Sight Yourself
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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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
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
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself

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