Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTYou 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.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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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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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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