One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOur ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Read in order to live.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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