Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEarth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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 heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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