To be simple is no small matter.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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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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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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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of 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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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