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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe 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.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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