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"One can find so many pains when the rain is falling."

"The hidden hand of contentment is in the rewards of the gratified. The hidden hand of bliss is in the rewards of the tranquil. The hidden hand of happiness is in the rewards of the elated. The hidden hand of joy is in the rewards of the jubilant."

"Love in fools is better than hate in the wise."

"If you get too close to the sun, you will burn; if you get too far, you will freeze: this is how it is with passion."

"Love is the greatest drug; joy is the strongest medicine; virtue is the noblest remedy; together, they are the greatest therapy."

"Love that hurts is better than hate that tickles."

"One who loves lives a thousand years in one day, one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years."

"Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions."

"The universe acknowledges the value of your tears; for when it rains, it is shedding its own."

"When love enters your heart, hate is given an eviction notice."
Explore more quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height."

"A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous."

"This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the time come to awaken."

"I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodges his friends in the belly of whales, dies uttering a cry, and rises again at the end of three days; things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them."

"She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage."

"For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries."
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