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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
— Gustave Flaubert
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
— Gustave Flaubert
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The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
— Gustave Flaubert
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