The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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