There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Read in order to live.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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