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

Gustave Flaubert

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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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