I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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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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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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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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