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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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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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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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