There is no truth. There is only perception.
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 never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Read in order to live.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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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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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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