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“Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it’s yours. But what if such an answer gradually becomes less and less convincing?”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
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