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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
From Sentimental Education
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I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
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In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don’t see what use he is.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world
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Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
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Nessuno, mai, riesce a dare l'esatta misura di ciò che pensa, di ciò che soffre, della necessità che lo incalza, e la parola umana è spesso come un pentolino di latta su cui andiamo battendo melodie da far ballare gli orsi mentre vorremmo intenerire le stelle.
From Madame Bovary
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Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
From November
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But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
From Madame Bovary
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Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.
From The Letters, 1830-1880
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But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.
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Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
From Madame Bovary
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
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How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes. But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that day; she listened to every sound, sprang up with a start, wondered that it did not come; then at sunset, always more saddened, she longed for the morrow.
From Madame Bovary
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
From Sentimental Education
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I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
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In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don’t see what use he is.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world
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Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
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Nessuno, mai, riesce a dare l'esatta misura di ciò che pensa, di ciò che soffre, della necessità che lo incalza, e la parola umana è spesso come un pentolino di latta su cui andiamo battendo melodie da far ballare gli orsi mentre vorremmo intenerire le stelle.
From Madame Bovary
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Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
From November
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But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
From Madame Bovary
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Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.
From The Letters, 1830-1880
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But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.
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Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
From Madame Bovary
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
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How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes. But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that day; she listened to every sound, sprang up with a start, wondered that it did not come; then at sunset, always more saddened, she longed for the morrow.
From Madame Bovary
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
From Sentimental Education
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I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
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In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don’t see what use he is.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world
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Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
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Nessuno, mai, riesce a dare l'esatta misura di ciò che pensa, di ciò che soffre, della necessità che lo incalza, e la parola umana è spesso come un pentolino di latta su cui andiamo battendo melodie da far ballare gli orsi mentre vorremmo intenerire le stelle.
From Madame Bovary
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Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
From November
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But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
From Madame Bovary
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Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.
From The Letters, 1830-1880
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But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.
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Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
From Madame Bovary
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
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How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes. But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that day; she listened to every sound, sprang up with a start, wondered that it did not come; then at sunset, always more saddened, she longed for the morrow.
From Madame Bovary
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