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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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