One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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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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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms 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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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.
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