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.
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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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