Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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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 are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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