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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTI spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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