On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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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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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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