The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Read in order to live.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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