I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTShe wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Read in order to live.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within 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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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