Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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