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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTExuberance is better than taste.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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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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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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Read in order to live.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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