She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to 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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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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