Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTExuberance is better than taste.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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