Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
More Quotes from Gustave Flaubert:
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.Gustave Flaubert
Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
Gustave Flaubert
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
By dint of railing at idiots you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself
Gustave Flaubert
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Gustave Flaubert
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