Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTravel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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