Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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