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Read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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