"What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!"

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Gustave Flaubert

#Stars Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Language Quotes

“We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place.”
“Just to deliver one high-quality 45 minute lesson requires many hours of planning in advance.”
“This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.”
“It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.”
“Go out and do something. It isnâ€™t your room thatâ€™s a prison, itâ€™s yourself.”
“A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.”
“Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.”
“everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.”

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