The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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