"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."

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For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.

— Gustave Flaubert