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GUSTAVE FLAUBERTStupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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