Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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