What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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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 art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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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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