Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTMy foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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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.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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