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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!

Gustave Flaubert

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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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History Ignorance Ourselves Time
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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