Exuberance is better than taste.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTRead in order to live.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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