There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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