The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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