It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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 can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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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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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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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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