The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTStupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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