It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTo be simple is no small matter.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Read in order to live.
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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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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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