It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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Read in order to live.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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