One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOne mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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