What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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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 don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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