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.
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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Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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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 most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
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Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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