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

Gustave Flaubert

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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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