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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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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.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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