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.
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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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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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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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