Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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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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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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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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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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What 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.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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