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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTravel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The 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.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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