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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.

Gustave Flaubert

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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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