black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Gustave Flaubert

Related Topics

Human Music Rhythm Speech Stars

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Beyond Circumference Herself Universe
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Blood Life Style Thinking Writing
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Invention Perfection Poetry Precise True
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Happiness Life Philosophy Tree Woman
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Corruption Heart Love Need Yourself
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Imagination Myself Reality
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Creation Delicious Universe Writing Yourself
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Art Avoid Count Happiness Rest
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Adventure Modesty Occupy Place Travel World Yourself
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Level Life Sea Writing
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Country Death Herself Live
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Current heavy Ideas Strong
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Anticipation Finding Memories Pleasure
I have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Desire Dreams Myself Potential
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Death Education Learning Life Talk

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes