All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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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 heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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