There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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