A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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