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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of 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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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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