To be simple is no small matter.
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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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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