Talent is nothing but long patience.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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