Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Read in order to live.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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