The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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