Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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