Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOne’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms 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 writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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