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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

Gustave Flaubert

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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
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
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
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
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 are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
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
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 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
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship 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
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
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
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

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