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Gustave Flaubert

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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Doubt Exhaust Myself
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Art Believe Discover Inspirational Writing Yourself
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Different Food Heart Stomach
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life Particle Poetry
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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Believe Death Difficult Feeling Oneself Person
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Life Order Original Regular Violence Work
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Invention Oneself True
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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Discover Forest Harmony Listening Try Waves
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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Attack Break Hard Nature Resistance Shake Stupidity
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Death Education Learning Life Talk
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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Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Enterprise Failure Humiliate Idiot See Success
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Inspirational One Liner Patience Talent
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Favorite Myself World
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Level Life Sea Writing
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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Happiness Lost Selfish Stupidity
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Imagination Myself Reality
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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Brain Day Finding Hands Head Stay Word
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Communication Difficult Finding Hard Perfect Relationship
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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Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Better Gratitude History Ignorance King Ordinary Ourselves Person Perspective Time
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Believe End Inspirational Motivational Oneself Sky Wings

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