One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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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 heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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