Quote by Gustave Flaubert

From my collection of mostly pessimistic quotes.

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Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions....

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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness....

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happi...

Doubt ... is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness....

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels....

If you participate in life, you don't see it clearly: you suffer from it too muc...