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The future is the worst thing about the present.

Gustave Flaubert

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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Read in order to live.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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 wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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