I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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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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Read in order to live.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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