One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to 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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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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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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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