There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTRead in order to live.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
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