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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.

Gustave Flaubert

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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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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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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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