We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTGustave Flaubert Quotes
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Read in order to live.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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