All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI have dreamed much and have done very little.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Read in order to live.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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