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!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTExuberance is better than taste.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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