Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTExuberance is better than taste.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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Human 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.
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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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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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