Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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 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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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 believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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