One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Read in order to live.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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