The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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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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