I have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTRead in order to live.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Read in order to live.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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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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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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