This was how they wished they had been: each was creating an ideal into which he was now fitting his past life.
("Madame Bovary")
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Szeretett volna nem élni vagy mindig aludni.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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