For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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Read in order to live.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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