Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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 public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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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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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Read in order to live.
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