What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTStupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Read in order to live.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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