Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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