The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAnything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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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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