A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
More Quotes from Gustave Flaubert:
Happy are they who don't doubt themselves and whose pens fly across the page. I myself hesitate, I falter, I become angry and fearful, my drive diminishes as my taste improves, and I brood more over an ill-suited word than I rejoice over a well-proportionGustave Flaubert
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
Gustave Flaubert
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Gustave Flaubert
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself
Gustave Flaubert
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
Gustave Flaubert
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
Gustave Flaubert
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