It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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.
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