Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAnything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Read in order to live.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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