It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTPleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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!
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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Read in order to live.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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 wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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