To be simple is no small matter.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOur ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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