One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTShe wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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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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