I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAll you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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 deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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