It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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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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