Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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To be simple is no small matter.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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