For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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 whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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