Talent is nothing but long patience.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLove is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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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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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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Read in order to live.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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