Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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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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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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Read in order to live.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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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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