Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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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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