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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.

Gustave Flaubert

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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Read in order to live.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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