For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTPleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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