Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEarth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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Read in order to live.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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 don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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