Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTPleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within 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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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