I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAnything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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