Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe future is the worst thing about the present.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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