Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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