Gustave Flaubert on stomach
Gustave Flaubert70 quotes“The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.”
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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!
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert Exuberance is better than taste.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert 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.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert The future is the worst thing about the present.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert 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.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert Read in order to live.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
Bill WaltonBill Walton You’re going to need a stronger stomach if you’re going to be back in the kitchen seeing how the sausage is made.
Bert CooperBert Cooper Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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William CowperWilliam Cowper It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
Jojo MoyesJojo Moyes I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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