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«When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
| About:
Laughter,
Strength
| Keywords:
dead hand, deride, derided, derides, laughing, The Circle
«I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
annoyed, collapse, exasperation, fury, prostration, recover
«How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.»
«Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
| About:
Inventions,
Poetry
| Keywords:
geometry, invents, perfectly, precise
«The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
attained, bourgeois, proletarian, proletarians
«Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity»
«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.»
«The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.»
«By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself»
«Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
causes, history, ignorance, our own, slander, slandered, slandering, Slanders
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