What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Read in order to live.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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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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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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