The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTBe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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