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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Gustave Flaubert

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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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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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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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