Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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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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