You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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