Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEverything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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 art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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