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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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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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