Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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.
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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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Read in order to live.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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