Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTBe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTStupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTFor him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTRead in order to live.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTo be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTSuccess is a consequence and must not be a goal.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAfter 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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTIt’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTReality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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