To be simple is no small matter.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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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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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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Read in order to live.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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