One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTReality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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 a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Read in order to live.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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