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“(1850) ‘From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzy rate. We are dancing not on the edge of a volcano, but on the wooden seat of a latrine, and it seems to me more than a touch rotten. Soon society will go plummeting down and drown in nineteen centuries of shit. There’ll be quite a lot of shouting.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“He said that there were three preconditions for happiness â€� stupidity, selfishness and good health”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“seeing it in the smoky shadow before dawn as a gradual multiplication”
― Rabbit, Run
― Rabbit, Run
“He spoke grudgingly about his exploits. He did not belong to that species of persons who do things in order to talk about them (like me).”
― The Periodic Table
― The Periodic Table
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