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Literature · Reflection

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ~ READ TO LIVE

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”

Gustave Flaubert

31 March 2016

Henri Roger-Viollet

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