The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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Read in order to live.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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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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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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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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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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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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