Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTBe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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