The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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