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

Gustave Flaubert

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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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