- A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
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- A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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- Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
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- One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
Gustave Flaubert »
- Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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- Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert »
- Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
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- Perfection is the enemy of the good.
Gustave Flaubert »
- Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
Gustave Flaubert »
- That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
Gustave Flaubert »
- The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
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- The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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- To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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