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 FLAUBERTRead in order to live.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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 whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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