The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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Read in order to live.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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