I have dreamed much and have done very little.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTExuberance is better than taste.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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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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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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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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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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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 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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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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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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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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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