One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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