The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEverything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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