The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is no truth. There is only perception.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s 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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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