Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Read in order to live.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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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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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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