A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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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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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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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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