Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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 art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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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 tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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