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

Gustave Flaubert

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society
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
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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One Liner Perception Truth
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
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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
You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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 are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
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
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
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

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