The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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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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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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You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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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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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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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
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