It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTA friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Read in order to live.
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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