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Time Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are…
- For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like…
- I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal…
- As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue?…
- Remembering the ball became for Emma a daily occupation. Every time Wednesday came round, she told herself when she woke up: 'Ah! One week ago...two…
- Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the…
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