The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEarth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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.
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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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