Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe future is the worst thing about the present.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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Read in order to live.
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