The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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