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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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