Talent is nothing but long patience.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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