To be simple is no small matter.
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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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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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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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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Read in order to live.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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