I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
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.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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