For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTShe wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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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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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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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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