Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEverything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Read in order to live.
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