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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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Read in order to live.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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