The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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