Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLove is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Read in order to live.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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