Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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