Exuberance is better than taste.
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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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