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Gustave Flaubert

"He had the vanity to believe men did not like him " while men simply did not know him."

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Donna Grant

"What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other 'flaws'."

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Donna Grant

"The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that 'I died'. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (is always intact). Even Pudgal (the atoms that were charged; which are being discharged in the form of mind, body, speech) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle."

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Donna Grant

"An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it."

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Donna Grant

"Egoism does not have eyes of its own. Some days, it sees through the eyes of the intellect (buddhi). However, what will happen if you befriend a blind man?"

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Donna Grant

"Egoism has arisen due to circumstances and circumstances have survived due to egoism. The one whose egoism is gone, for him circumstances are gone. Everything has come into existence because of wrong belief."

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Donna Grant

"In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance."

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Donna Grant

"The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries."

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Donna Grant

"Where there is 'egoism', there is no God. Where there is God, there is no 'egoism'."

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Donna Grant

"Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness."

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Donna Grant

"What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that."

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Gustave Flaubert
"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

Man

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Gustave Flaubert
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."

Faith

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Gustave Flaubert
"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

Being

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Gustave Flaubert
"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

Happiness

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Gustave Flaubert
"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family."

Family

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Gustave Flaubert
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

Art

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Gustave Flaubert
"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."

Love

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Gustave Flaubert
"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."

Life

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Gustave Flaubert
"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

Music

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Gustave Flaubert
"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."

Existence

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