Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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