The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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 spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Read in order to live.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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