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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Gustave Flaubert

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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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