The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI 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.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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