One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTSuccess is a consequence and must not be a goal.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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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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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Read in order to live.
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