One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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