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Read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
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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Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading
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
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
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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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality

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