Quote by Gustave Flaubert
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. – Gustave Flaubert

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I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. – Gustave Flaubert

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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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There is even a happiness – that makes the heart afraid. – Thomas Hood

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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. – Samuel Johnson

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There is something curiously boring about somebody elses happiness. – Aldous Huxley

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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. – Bertrand Russell

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