A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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