Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Read in order to live.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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