I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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