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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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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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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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