The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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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.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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