A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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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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