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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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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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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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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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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Read in order to live.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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