Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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