What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTIt’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
More Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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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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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
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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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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Read in order to live.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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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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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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