The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTTalent is nothing but long patience.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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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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