I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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