Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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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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