I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
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.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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