Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTRead in order to live.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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