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Gustave Flaubert

"Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity."

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"Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

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"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."

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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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"If you don't capture the moments, it will be gone forever."

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"Hurry up, before there's no more night left."

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"They say "time is money". But I want to say "time makes money". This means time is greater than money."

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"There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break."

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"But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,And Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop."

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