The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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