There is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTNothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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 only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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