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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

Gustave Flaubert

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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Life Particle Poetry

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