There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTRead in order to live.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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 public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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Read in order to live.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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