Gustave Flaubert  - Quotes

 In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard.  

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Henry Miller  - Quotes

 Aquellos dos hablaban de especie de jerga matem 

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  - Quotes

 People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. 

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Wassily Kandinsky  - Quotes

 Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. 

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Julian Barnes  - Quotes

 You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string. 

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Gustave Flaubert  - Quotes

 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. 

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Gustave Flaubert  - Quotes

 It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols. 

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Gustave Flaubert  - Quotes

 Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. 

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Philip K. Dick  - Quotes

 Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank. 

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