It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Precise
You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT DayWord
One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Oneself
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 FLAUBERT
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. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Horrible
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. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Lust
