What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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