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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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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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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Read in order to live.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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