My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Read in order to live.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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