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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe 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.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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