Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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