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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
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
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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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
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Beautiful Moral
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility

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