Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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