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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.”
31 March 2016
Henri Roger-Viollet
1893
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