What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEarth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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 most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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