black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Gustave Flaubert

Related Topics

Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Favorite Myself World
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Current heavy Ideas Strong
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Interest See Sight Yourself
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Laughter Man Strong Suffering
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
To be simple is no small matter.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

History Ignorance Ourselves Time
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
Read in order to live.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Live One Liner Order Reading
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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society
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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes