She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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