The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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