You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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