The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOf all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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