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.
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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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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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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