One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAfter 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.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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