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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.

Gustave Flaubert

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Art Avoid Count Happiness Rest
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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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
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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Challenge Day Feeling Glory Life Moments Promise Rise Success
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Life Particle Poetry
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Favorite Myself World
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
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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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

History Ignorance Ourselves Time
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 FLAUBERT

Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
There is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

One Liner Perception Truth
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Country Death Herself Live
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Beyond Circumference Herself Universe

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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