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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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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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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Read in order to live.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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