She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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