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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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