One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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 wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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