There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOne never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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