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

Gustave Flaubert

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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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!
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