What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTYou need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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Read in order to live.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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