The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.Gustave Flaubert
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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.
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Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars.
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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
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