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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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