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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Gustave Flaubert

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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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Ambitious Children Instruction Live Order Purpose Reading
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Death Friendship Yourself
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Life Order Original Regular Violence Work
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal

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