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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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