One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
Quote by Gustave Flaubert
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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Gustave Flaubert Quotes
- 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.
- There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
- The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
- Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
- Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
- One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
- Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
- Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
- The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
- 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.
Best Quotes
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- This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.
- Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
- Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.
- We're not trying to change the world just music.
- Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.
- If we reject science, we reject the common man.
- Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
- Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.