The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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