All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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