“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.”
— Gustave Flaubert
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Category: life
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“One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.”
— Gustave Flaubert
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Category: hope
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“Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.”
— Gustave Flaubert
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Category: nature
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“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”
— Gustave Flaubert
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“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
— Gustave Flaubert
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“The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.”
— Gustave Flaubert
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Category: art
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“Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.”
— Gustave Flaubert
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Category: nature
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“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.”
— Gustave Flaubert
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Category: family
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“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
— Gustave Flaubert
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“The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.”
— Gustave Flaubert
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Category: art
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“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.”
— Gustave Flaubert
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Category: future
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