What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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 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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