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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f6f9e29 | Surely it could not have been a dove God had chosen to speak through, since doves could not talk. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 275ca99 | So when will this society, bastardised by every debauchery of mind, body and soul, finally come to an end? | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 4b67721 | Barbatul cu multa experienta nu mai putea face deosebire intre sentimente diferite daca erau exprimate la fel.Pentru ca buze desfranate sau interesate ii soptisera aceleasi cuvinte,nu mai credea decat prea putin in candoarea celor pe care le auzea acum;mai trebuie temperate,gandea el,discursurile exagerate ascund sentimente mediocre;asa cum preaplinul sufletului se revarsa uneori in metaforele cele mai sterile,pentru ca nimeni,niciodata,nu .. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| a863888 | Coming joys, like tropical shores, throw over the immensity before them their inborn softness, an odorous wind, and we are lulled by this intoxication without a thought of the horizon that we do not even know. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 2c3e91e | But how nothingness invades us! We are scarcely born ere decay begins for us, in such a way that the whole of life is but one long combat with it, more and more triumphant, on its part, to the consummation, namely, death; and then the reign of decay is exclusive. | death life nothingness decay | Gustave Flaubert | |
| edea25b | Se conocian demasiado para gozar de aquellos embelesos de la pasion que centuplican su gozo. Ella estaba tan hastiada de el como el cansado de ella. Emma volvia a encontrar en el adulterio todas las soserias del matrimonio | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| f2b4bdb | Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| dbb262b | Pellerin used to read every available book on aesthetics, in the hope of discovering the true theory of Beauty, for he was convinced that once he had found it he would be able to paint masterpieces. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 832e453 | Irony takes nothing away from pathos. | pathos | Gustave Flaubert | |
| ced2865 | Emigres: Earned their livelihood by giving guitar lessons and mixing salads. | flaubert | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 6e756d9 | I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodges his friends in the belly of whales, dies uttering a cry, and rises again at the end of three days; things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them. | homais myths ignorance legends | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 478e24c | Ella solo pedia apoyarse en algo mas solido que el amor. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 2629d22 | Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can't stiffen up enough to create them. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| ab5ccd4 | you must - do you hear me, young man? - you must work more than you are doing! | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| d33d58f | N'importe ! elle n'etait pas heureuse, ne l'avait jamais ete. D'ou venait donc cette insuffisance de la vie, cette pourriture instantanee des choses ou elle s'appuyait ?... Mais, s'il y avait quelque part un etre fort et beau, une nature valeureuse, pleine a la fois d'exaltation et de raffinements, un coeur de poete sous une forme d'ange, lyre aux cordes d'airain, sonnant vers le ciel des epithalames elegiaques, pourquoi, par hasard, ne le .. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| b776567 | I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences. No, no! Genuine poetry is not the scum of the heart. | poetry chamberpot drainpipe | Gustave Flaubert | |
| b240bd9 | There is a place they call La Pature, on the top of the hill, on the edge of the forest. Sometimes, on Sundays, I go and stay there with a book, watching the sunset. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| c994c61 | His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner. | marriage routine husband habit | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 528db5f | But vilifying those we love always alienates us from them to a certain extent. Idols should not be touched: the gilding comes off on the hands. | relationships love idols classics | Gustave Flaubert | |
| cb715a8 | Od svega ovoga sto sledi niko nista nije znao, i oni koji su me svakog dana vidali nisu znali nista vise od drugih; bili su, u odnosu na mene, kao postelja u kojoj spavam i koja ne zna moje snove. A usotalom, zar ljudsko srce nije ogromno samovanje u koje niko ne moze da prodre? | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 352c5bc | Antes de casarse, Emma se habia creido enamorada; pero como la felicidad que hubiera debido resultar de aquel amor no habia llegado, penso que necesariamente debia de haberse equivocado. Y trataba de averiguar que significaban exactamente en la vida las palabras 'dicha', 'pasion' y 'embriaguez', que tan hermosas le habian parecido en los libros | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 0c466bc | sorrow rushed into her soul, moaning softly like the winter wind in abandoned manor houses. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 96a3e98 | encontrava-se numa dessas crises em que a alma inteira mostra indistintamente o que encerra como o oceano que, nas tempestades, entreabre-se das algas das praia ate a areia dos abismos. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 4e90f03 | She thought, sometimes, that, after all, this was the happiest time of her life--the honeymoon, as people called it. To taste the full sweetness of it, it would have been necessary doubtless to fly to those lands with sonorous names where the days after marriage are full of laziness most suave. In post chaises behind blue silken curtains to ride slowly up steep road, listening to the song of the postilion re-echoed by the mountains, along w.. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 5233c72 | Besides, she had just reached the autumnal period of womanhood, in which reflection is combined with tenderness, in which the beginning of maturity colours the face with a more intense flame, when strength of feeling mingles with experience of life, and when, having completely expanded, the entire being overflows with a richness in unison with its beauty. Never had she possessed more sweetness, more leniency. Secure in the thought that she .. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| f2fb24a | Cheer up,' said the captain's son. 'Life is long, and we are young. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 437e19b | The hearts of women are like little pieces of furniture wherein things are secreted, full of drawers fitted into each other; one hurts himself, breaks his nails in opening them, and then finds within only some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness! And then perhaps he felt afraid of learning too much about the matter. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| fbd843c | Why, like all men," she replied. Then added, repulsing him with a languid movement - "You are all evil!" | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 4598867 | Il citait du latin, tant il etait exaspere. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| c0a8406 | Accustomed to the calm aspects of things, she turned, instead, toward the more tumultuous. She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it grew up here and there among ruins. She needed to derive from things a sort of personal gain; and she rejected as useless everything that did not contribute to the immediate gratification of her heart, -- being by temperament more sentimental than artistic, in search of emotions and not .. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 39cdcad | It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are. --GEORGE ORWELL, The Road to Wigan Pier | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 29740cd | I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies. | learning | Gretchen Rubin | |
| d6d4a23 | I knew I wouldn't discover happiness in a faraway place or in unusual circumstances; it was right here, right now-- as in the haunting play "The Blue Bird," where two children spend a year searching the world for the Blue Bird of Happiness, only to find it waiting for them when they finally return home." | happiness blue-bird | Gretchen Rubin | |
| b31b7e7 | When Churchill was running for office for the first time, he went door to door to ask for votes. He knocked on the door of an irritable man who, when Churchill introduced himself, said, "Vote for you? Why, I'd rather vote for the devil!" "I understand," answered Churchill. "But in case your friend is not running, may I count on your support?" | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| ae452cb | lzwj lnjH 'Hd 'hm w'qw~ l`wml lmrtbT@ bls`d@ | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 88e31fb | arriving rarely makes you as happy as you anticipate. p 84 | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 0ea2617 | A willingness to be pleased requires modesty and even innocence--easy to deride as mawkish and sentimental. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 86da370 | You | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 9e23001 | What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| c4aae37 | There are times in the lives of most of us," observed William Edward Hartpole Lecky, "when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed." | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| ba63a49 | Keep it simple' wasn't always the right response. Many things that boosted my happiness also added complexity to my life. Having children. Learning to post videos to my website. Going to an out-of-town wedding. Applied too broadly, my impulse to 'Keep it simple' would impoverish me. 'Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings,' warned Samuel Johnson, 'let us therefore by cautious how we strip her. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 1e8e6e4 | When I focus on the way "men" or "husbands" generally behave, I start to lump Jamie along with half of humanity. I find myself feeling angry or annoyed with Jamie for things he hasn't even done." | marriage | Gretchen Rubin | |
| 5c6b13f | I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time--but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spend with my family and friends was never wasted." | time productivity | Gretchen Rubin | |
| 5bca1d5 | Nothing is more exhausting than the task that's never started. | chores just-start exhaustion start | Gretchen Rubin |