The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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 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.
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Read in order to live.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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