It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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