A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTIt’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Read in order to live.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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