A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTFor him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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