It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTRead in order to live.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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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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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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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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To be simple is no small matter.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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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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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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