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«In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
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Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
«The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft»
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«The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.»
«What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.»
«I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all»
«Print: to see one's name in print! - Some people commit a crime for no other reason»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
«Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert»
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