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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

"One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes""I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream""Sadness is a vice""We must laugh and we must sing if only to avoid killing ourselves""To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness""Pleasure is found first in anticipation later in memory.""One can be the master of what one does but never of what one feels.""It is not to weigh anchor that we must train masters.""An author in his book must be like God in the universe.""The more humanity advances the more it is degraded.""There are neither good nor bad subjects From the point of view of pure Art you could almost establish it as an axiom that there is no such thing as a subject inferior in itself or without possibilities""The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed""Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope even the ruins to which it clings""Success is a consequence and must not be a goal""Writing is a dog’s life but the only life worth living""Of all lies art is the least untrue""The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois""Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions""Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in""Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry"