One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI have dreamed much and have done very little.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to 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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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