The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Read in order to live.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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