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 FLAUBERTOf all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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 not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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Read in order to live.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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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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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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