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
+ One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Masters, 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
+ And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Ice, Light, Moon, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Blow, Chill, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ Stupidity is an immovable object: you can’t try to attack it wiithout being broken by it. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Broken, Stupidity, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Humility, Stupidity, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Contemplation, Noble, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Dream, Funeral, Tombs, 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
