I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTRead in order to live.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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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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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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