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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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