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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.

Gustave Flaubert

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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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