To be simple is no small matter.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTSuccess is a consequence and must not be a goal.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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