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Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”

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Gustave Flaubert, born on December 12, 1821 and died on May 8, 1880, was a prominent French writer of the 19th century. Known for his exquisite literary skills and profound psychological portrayals, Flaubert is best remembered for his masterpiece 'Madame Bovary'. more

“In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.”

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“In my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy.”

Should Turns Opinion Wealthy

Author:Claudia Gray

“if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading”

Ifs Want Writing Reading Names Remembered Worth Reading

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.”