I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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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 an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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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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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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