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The future is the worst thing about the present.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Laughter Man Strong Suffering
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Existence God Oneself Thinking

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