Read in order to live.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLove is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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