The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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!
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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