One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTIt’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Read in order to live.
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