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Gustave Flaubert

1821-1880. French novelist, author of "Madame Bovary".

1. "Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful."

categories: History and Nations

2. "To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

categories: Happiness -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

3. "To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."

source: letter to Louise Colet; August 6, 1846

categories: Happiness -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

4. "The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."

categories: Politics and Diplomacy

5. "The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

categories: Life and Death

6. "The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."

source: "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Love

7. "The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him."

categories: Art and Culture

8. "Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."

source: "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

categories: Success and Fame

9. "Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it."

source: "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

categories: Reality and Imagination

10. "Of all lies, art is the least untrue."

categories: Art and Culture

11. "Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes

12. "Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."

source: "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

categories: Life and Death -:- Education

13. "Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

source: letter to Louise Colet

categories: Happiness


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