You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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 an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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Read in order to live.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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