Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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