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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!

Gustave Flaubert

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Life Particle Poetry
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Eat Life Surface Yourself
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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Cry Enjoyment Human Laughter Myself Suffering Thinking
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
There is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

One Liner Perception Truth
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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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Future Present Worst
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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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Desire Dreams Myself Potential
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Confirm Ideal Reality
Exuberance is better than taste.
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Better One Liner Taste
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Morning Myself Removal

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