You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTIt’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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