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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTYou 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.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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’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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