Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTFor him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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Read in order to live.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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