Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is no truth. There is only perception.
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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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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 never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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