Exuberance is better than taste.
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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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