I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Read in order to live.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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