What did Gustave Flaubert mean by: To see one’s name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason. - Gustave Flaubert Copy
+ He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Believe, Vanity, 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
+ The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Book, Literature, 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
+ Je suis autant Chinois que Fran c° ais. I am as much Chinese as French. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Chinese, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Desire, Stronger, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Return, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Heart, Inertia, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
