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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
Gustave Flaubert
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Gustave Flaubert
Age: 58 †
Born: 1821
Born: December 12
Died: 1880
Died: May 8
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
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What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring.
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