A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOur ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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Read in order to live.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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