Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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