For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOur ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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Read in order to live.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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