Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTYou need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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