Talent is nothing but long patience.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTo be simple is no small matter.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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 writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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Read in order to live.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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