The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTYou need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms 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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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