What did Gustave Flaubert mean by: Stupidity is an immovable object: you can’t try to attack it wiithout being broken by it. - Gustave Flaubert Copy
+ There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Poetry, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Calm, Restraint, Writing, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Laughing, Laughter, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Fathers Day, Karma, Soul, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Literature, Poetry, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Sea, Wade, Writing, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Becoming, Risk, Running, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The golden rule in the arts, as far as I am concerned, is that all rules are meant to be broken. - Michael Kenna Photographer · England
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn’t matter at all. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
love is not a victory march, it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah. - Jeff Buckley Singer-songwriter
