Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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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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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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