One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms 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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Read in order to live.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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