Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTIt’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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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 principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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