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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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