Everything which one invents is true, be sure of 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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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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 art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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