All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTShe wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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Read in order to live.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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