I have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWe must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEverything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTPleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat 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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe 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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOur 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!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTravel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTo be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTReality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTStupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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