The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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