One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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