Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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