What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEverything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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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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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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Read in order to live.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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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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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
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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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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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