Read in order to live.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTShe wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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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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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.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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