I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAfter 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.
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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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