There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTFor him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Read in order to live.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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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