Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Read in order to live.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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