It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTEverything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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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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There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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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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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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