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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Read in order to live.
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Live One Liner Order Reading
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Believe End Inspirational Motivational Oneself Sky Wings
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Current heavy Ideas Strong
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst

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