Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Read in order to live.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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