black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

Gustave Flaubert

Related Topics

Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Boundary Earth Human Limitation Stupidity
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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Morning Myself Removal
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Beautiful Moral
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Emotion Feeling Master One Liner Work
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Blow Chill Love Request
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Hold Important Soul World
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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
There is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

One Liner Perception Truth
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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Art Avoid Horrible Life Live World
I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Believe Happiness Myself Thinking Tranquility
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes