A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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Read in order to live.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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You 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.
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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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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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Exuberance is better than taste.
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