Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTSuccess is a consequence and must not be a goal.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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 is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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