I have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOne never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, 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 must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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