You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAnything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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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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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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