Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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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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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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