She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTExuberance is better than taste.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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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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