Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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