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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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Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Ordinary Small Tender
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Morning Myself Removal
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Eat Life Surface Yourself
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World

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