There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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.
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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