I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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 friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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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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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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