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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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