I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOf all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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