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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.

Gustave Flaubert

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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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