Talent is nothing but long patience.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Read in order to live.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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