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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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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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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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