One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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 heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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