Flaubert's Parrot
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What were they really after? Something, evidently, which lay beyond what they appeared to seek. Perhaps some final confirmation that mankind itself was ineradicably corrupt, that life was indeed just a gaudy nightmare in the head of an imbecile?
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You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren’t treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeking approval, making certain you’re on the right side?
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I don’t say things have got worse; I merely say the young wouldn’t notice if they had.
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Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act.