I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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