Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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