A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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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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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 never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Read in order to live.
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