There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAll you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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