Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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