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GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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