I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe future is the worst thing about the present.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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