Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOne never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Read in order to live.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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