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“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Affection: Tout ce qui, dans nos pensées, dans nos projets, dans nos résolutions est marqué d'un degré quelconque d'amour ou de haine, de joie ou de tristesse.”
― Alain, Les arts et les dieux (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade)

“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.”
― Andre Dubus