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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Read in order to live.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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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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