The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTHuman speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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