To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe future is the worst thing about the present.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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