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Read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
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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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live

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