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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Read in order to live.
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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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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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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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 heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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