A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTWe must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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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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