Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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