I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Read in order to live.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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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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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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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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