A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAnything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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 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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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