Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTReality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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