Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms 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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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