We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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 have dreamed much and have done very little.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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