Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Read in order to live.
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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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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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