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Biography - Gustave Flaubert:

French novelist.
Born: 1821 - Died: 1880
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Gustave Flaubert



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Note





Wikisource - Pensées de Gustave Flaubert (fr) 



I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Je crois que si l’on regardait toujours les cieux, on finirait par avoir des ailes.
Gustave Flaubert

German
Ich glaube, dass einem mit der Zeit Flügel wachsen würden, wenn man immer den Himmel betrachtet.
Gustave Flaubert



See also 

See also...



If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
Gabrielle Chasnel, dîte Coco Chanel

Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.
Charlie Chaplin



Quotes for: heaven


Quotes

Quotes about heaven:


There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 





They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles / 





No man has received from nature the right to command others. Liberty is a gift from heaven.
Denis Diderot - Encyclopédie / 





Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason / 





Help yourself and heaven will help you.
Jean de La Fontaine - Le Chartier embourbé / 





My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 






All about heaven...




Quotes for: wings


Quotes

Quotes for: wings


Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables / 





Man, too, has wings, he has imagination.
Soren Kierkegaard / 





Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dalí / 





Fear: Gives one wings.
Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary of Received Ideas / 





A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Jules Renard / 






Quotes

Gustave Flaubert also said...


Idiots: Those who do not think like us.
Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary of Received Ideas / 





I want to live through three or four more books.
Gustave Flaubert / 





Fear: Gives one wings.
Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary of Received Ideas / 





To have talent, you must be convinced that you possess it.
Gustave Flaubert / 





The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
Gustave Flaubert





The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
Gustave Flaubert







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