What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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