The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTExuberance is better than taste.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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After 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.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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