Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOur ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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