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Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Conclusion Consist Reach Stupidity
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Eat Life Surface Yourself
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Ordinary Small Tender
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Interest See Sight Yourself
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Imagination Myself Reality
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Invention Oneself True
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Hold Important Soul World
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Level Life Sea Writing
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Acceptance Beautiful Feeling Greatness Society
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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Challenge Day Feeling Glory Life Moments Promise Rise Success
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Illusion One Liner Public Work
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.
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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word

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