All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Read in order to live.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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