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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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