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 FLAUBERTIt’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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