The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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