Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTShe wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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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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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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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 are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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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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