It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEarth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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