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"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."
"Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up."
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."
"It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim."
Explore 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."
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
"Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work."
"When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say theway God sees events from above?"
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