Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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