Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from spe…

Gustave Flaubert
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man. ✨ Gustave Flaubert (1967). Intimate notebook, 1840-1841
And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust. ✨ Gustave Flaubert (1954). The Selected Letters
There is no truth. There is only perception.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. ✨ Madame Bovary pt. 1, ch. 12 (1857) (translation by F … ▶

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