What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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