After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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