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 FLAUBERTOne never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Read in order to live.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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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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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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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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