Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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 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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Read in order to live.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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