Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe future is the worst thing about the present.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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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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