Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTExuberance is better than taste.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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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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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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