I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Read in order to live.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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