Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTBe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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