Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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