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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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