Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTFor him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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