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 FLAUBERTPleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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 a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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