Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The 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.
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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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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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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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