The future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEarth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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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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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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 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.
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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