All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTYou must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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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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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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