There is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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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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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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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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