Gustave Flaubert
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» Courage » “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.”
» History and Historians » “Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
» Humility » “Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.”
» Poetry and Poets » “All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.”
