The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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