After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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