I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTRead in order to live.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Read in order to live.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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