Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAnything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Read in order to live.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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