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April 16,2025
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Din 1910 și încă relevant, o lectură amuzantă
April 16,2025
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Un dicționar „poetic” cu definiții inedite pentru termeni banali (cafea, carte, usturoi...), pe care doar Flaubert putea să le născocească.

Înger: Face impresie în amor și literatură.
Ruine: Predispun la visare și dau o înfățișare poetică oricărui peisaj.
Usturoi: Omoară viermii intestinali și-ți ațâță pofta să faci dragoste. De cum a venit pe lume, Henric IV a fost frecat pe buze cu usturoi.
April 16,2025
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Very funny, very odd dictionary of cliches and banalities as uttered by French people in the late 19th Century. It's fun to get a sense of Flaubert's curmudgeonly persona, and kind of wild to think about what passed for political banalities among people for whom Napoleon's career was not so long ago, for whom the revolutions of 1848 were vivid in living memory, and for whom the crushing debacle of the Franco-Prussian War was a current event.
April 16,2025
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"Frauda: A face fraudă, când e vorba de averea statului, nu-i o înșelătorie, ci o dovadă de intelgență și de independență politică"

Flaubert sigur-sigur n-a trăit pe la noi, dar cel mai probabil în 1910 când scria se gândea la România.

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April 16,2025
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ძაამ სახალისო რამეა.
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BODY. If we knew how our body is made, we wouldn't dare move

CELEBRITIES. Concern yourself about the least details of their private lives, so that you can run them down

CHAMPAGNE. . . .pretend to despise it, saying: 'It's not really a wine.' Arouses the enthusiasm of petty folk

CHEESE. Quote Brillat-Savarin's maxim: 'Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye.'

DREAMS. Any great ideas one does not understand

PAGANINI. Never tuned his violin. Famous for his long fingers

POET. Pompous synonym for fool, dreamer

WEALTH. Substitute for everything, including reputation
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ORCHESTRA Image of society: everyone plays their part and there's someone in charge.
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