Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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 public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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