I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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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 deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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