A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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