What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTShe wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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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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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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