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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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