The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Read in order to live.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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