I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Read in order to live.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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