"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
― Gustave Flaubert
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Hope
― Gustave Flaubert
More From Gustave Flaubert
- "Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
- "To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
- "The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens."
More In Hope
- "How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for."― Terence
- "Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn’t come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will."― Josh Hartnett
- "The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."― Tom Hanks