L'avenir est ce qu'il y a de pire dans le présent. Et tous, vous n'aurez comme les autres que de l'ennui pendant votre vie, et une tombe après la mort, et la pourriture pour l'éternité.
- 1915 -
Gustave Flaubert
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Un corazón es una riqueza que no se vende ni se compra, pero que se regala
By Gustave Flaubert
El futuro nos tortura, y el pasado nos encadena. He ahí por qué se nos escapa el presente
By Gustave Flaubert
Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization’s sadnesses.
By Gustave Flaubert
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
By Gustave Flaubert
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
By Gustave Flaubert
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
By Gustave Flaubert
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
By Gustave Flaubert
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
By Gustave Flaubert
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
By Gustave Flaubert
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
By Gustave Flaubert
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.
By Gustave Flaubert
How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?
By Gustave Flaubert
Sadness is a vice.
By Gustave Flaubert
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
Gustave Flaubert