Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAnything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTDo not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTLife is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTExuberance is better than taste.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThere is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOur ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe public wants work which flatters its illusions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTSuccess is a consequence and must not be a goal.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT