Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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