Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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