One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTExuberance is better than taste.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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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 deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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