The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTMy foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within 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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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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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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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