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“What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.”
― Signs and Symbols
― Signs and Symbols
“Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.”
― Dead Souls
― Dead Souls
“A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?”
― Lectures on Russian Literature
― Lectures on Russian Literature
“My soul has been haunted by something like those forgotten melodies that come back to us at twilight, during those slow hours in which memory, like a ghost among ruins, stalks our thoughts.”
― The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857
― The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857
“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
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