The future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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 whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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