You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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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 important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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