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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

Gustave Flaubert

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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