I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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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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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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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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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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