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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

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Read in order to live.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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