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.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWhat wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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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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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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