Quote of Gustave Flaubert - An infinity of passion can be...
Biography - Gustave Flaubert:
French novelist.
Born: 1821 - Died: 1880
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1821 - Died: 1880
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.
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(French, German)
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Quotes about passion:
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Quotes about space:
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.
The infinitely smallest part of space is always a space, something endowed with continuity, not at all a mere point or the boundary between specified places in space.
Quotes for: Infinity
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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