There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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Read in order to live.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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