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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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