There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Read in order to live.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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