You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWe must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Read in order to live.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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 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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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