Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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