The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEarth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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