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

Gustave Flaubert

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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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