Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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