Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWe must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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 never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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