For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Tag: Gustave Flaubert
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…exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.