You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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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.
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