The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTShe wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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