Talent is nothing but long patience.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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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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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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