One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.Gustave Flaubert
What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
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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.
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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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Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless And they stay in the desert Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.
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My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called Science.
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