Exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.

Famous Quotes / Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert: "Exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity."

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Affections	Bears	Beat	Cauldron
Conceal	Conceptions	Cracked	Dance
Emptiest	Exact	Exaggerated	Fulness
Give	Human	Making	Measurements
Mediocre	Melodies	Metaphors	Might
Move	Needs	Overflow	Pity
Since	Sometimes	Soul	Speech
Stars	Sufferings	Trying	Turns
Upon	Word

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Exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity. - Gustave Flaubert