There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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