The future is the worst thing about the present.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTExuberance is better than taste.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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