What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTPleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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Read in order to live.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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