Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Read in order to live.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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