Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI 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.
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 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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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