What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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