She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
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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I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
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I have dreamed much and have done very little.
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What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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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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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
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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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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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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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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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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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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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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
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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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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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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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There is no truth. There is only perception.
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