Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
Gustave Flaubert
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. -
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. -
I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope. -
The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope. -
My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
More quotes by 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.
- I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
- Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
- Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
- The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.