Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe future is the worst thing about the present.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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