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

Gustave Flaubert

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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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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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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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