Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Read in order to live.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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