A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of 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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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