Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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 is no truth. There is only perception.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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