Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTFor him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Read in order to live.
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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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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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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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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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