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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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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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Read in order to live.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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