Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTStupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Read in order to live.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms 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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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