Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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 wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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