The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTSuccess is a consequence and must not be a goal.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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