The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Read in order to live.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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