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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

Gustave Flaubert

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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Read in order to live.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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

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