What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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