Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe 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.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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