One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAnything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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