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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!

Gustave Flaubert

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Blow Chill Love Request
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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Art Avoid Count Happiness Rest
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Hold Important Soul World
The future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Future Present Worst
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Existence God Oneself Thinking
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Level Life Sea Writing
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Death Education Learning Life Talk
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Country Death Herself Live

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