I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEverything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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 a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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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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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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