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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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