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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTYou must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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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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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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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 whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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