Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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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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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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.
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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 don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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