I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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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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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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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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Read in order to live.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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