What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTSuccess is a consequence and must not be a goal.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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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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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 is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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