I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTIt’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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