I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTPleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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