Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEverything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Read in order to live.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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