The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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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 heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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