I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAnything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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