I have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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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 future is the worst thing about the present.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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