Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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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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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 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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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