Talent is nothing but long patience.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTBe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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 is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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