Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTYou must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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