She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Read in order to live.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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