The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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