Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTRead in order to live.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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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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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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