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Beautiful Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!
- 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…
- Beautiful things spoil nothing.
- A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
- Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
- The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
- One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes…
- You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
- My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's…
- Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring…
- What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
More Beautiful Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius
- Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot… — Paul Auster
- Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman