What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTo be simple is no small matter.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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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 can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing 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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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