Gustave Flaubert quotes
"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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"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."
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."
"Perfection is the enemy of the good."
"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work."
"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."
"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."
"A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man."