Gustave Flaubert Quotes

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• I have dreamed much and have done very little. Dreamed
• How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act. Act
• Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and… Accept
• But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use… Consolation
• Beautiful things spoil nothing. Beautiful
• I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber. All
• All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough. All
• What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our… Achievement
• Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo… Aboard
• A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man. Dead
• I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all All
• Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you. Blame
• 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… Ago
• Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. Art
• Prose is like hair; it shines with combing. Combing
• Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. Constant
• The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft. Aloft
• The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has… Arrogance
• In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a… Accompanies
• [The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He… Artist

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