The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTSuccess is a consequence and must not be a goal.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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