Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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 have dreamed much and have done very little.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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