The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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