My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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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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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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Read in order to live.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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