Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe public wants work which flatters its illusions.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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The 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.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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