There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEarth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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 consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Read in order to live.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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