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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI have dreamed much and have done very little.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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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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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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