The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAll you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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