Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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