Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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