Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing 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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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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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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 future is the worst thing about the present.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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