Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Read in order to live.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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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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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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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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