Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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