One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTFor him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Read in order to live.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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