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"Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it"

Translations

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to ...”

Gustave Flaubert

“Writing is a dog’s life but the only life worth living”

“Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in”

“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times”

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful”

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light”

“Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between ...”

“The reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become.”

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer”

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy”

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

“Adversity is an opportunity for growth and resilience. Embrace it, and you will emerge stronger.”

“Fear is just another word for ignorance”