Tired Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.” quote by Gustave Flaubert — Download Open image

“Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.”

Gustave Flaubert

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When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

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“We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.”

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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

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