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 FLAUBERTYou 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.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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Read in order to live.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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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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