Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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To be simple is no small matter.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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