To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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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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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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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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