Gustave Flaubert  - Quotes

 In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard.  

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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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