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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

Gustave Flaubert

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Beautiful Creation Hope Writing Yourself
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Favorite Myself World
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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Drinking History Writing
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Country Death Herself Live
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
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
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Hope Love Perfume Plant Ruin Time
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
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Democracy Dreams Level Raise Stupidity
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Laughter Man Strong Suffering
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Ordinary Small Tender
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Eat Life Surface Yourself
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Enough Interesting Yourself
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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Achievement Angry Difficult Lust Wonder
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

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