The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTRead in order to live.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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