The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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