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Gustave Flaubert70 quotes“There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.”
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert I have dreamed much and have done very little.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert To be simple is no small matter.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert 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.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert
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Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn’t quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.
Benjamin ClementineBenjamin Clementine Some of our jokes we made up on the fly. I love Lecrae; we have been friends for a while and he is just one of my favorite people.
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