Talent is nothing but long patience.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Read in order to live.
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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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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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